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Re: Pseudocode translator

• Posted by Irv Mullins <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> Mar 22, 1998
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At 05:05 AM 3/22/98 +0000,mdeland wrote:
>Mike Sabal wrote:
>> Just out of curiosity, would anybody be interested in program that could take
>> pseudocode and translate it into an optimized(sp?)
>> Euphoria .ex .exw file?
>
.the way I see it, as soon as you 'define' pseudocode,
>and thus limiting the choices of verbiage available to a programmer
>or even the curious novice, you have...in effect...just created a
>"High-Level" programming language instead of a true "Natural
>Language" environment...*shrug* just the way I see it...
>it's a catch-22:if you define it, it ain't what you want, and if you
>don't define it, it ain't what you want either...
>*ducks a few flames that whizz by*

No flames here, you're right. However, I notice that I
write a *lot* of pseudocode when programming Euphoria:
The first pass at a function might look like:

 function Lookup (object target, object list)
            -- for each item on the list
            -- check for list[INDEX] = target[INDEX]
            -- and list[NAME] = target[NAME]
            -- if found, then
  return list[item]
            -- otherwise
  return -1
  end function

To add the actual code is pretty simple, and I've already
written both pseudocode and documentation. Isn't the
worst habit to get into...
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